Haridwar police are now busy making a list of the realtors and others who are supposed to be helping the notorious gangster Sunil Rathi to run his crime syndicate from behind the bars of Bagpat jail in Uttar Pradesh which camt surface following the arrest of a property dealer Ashish Sharma alias Tully from Haridwar.
Sharma is believed to be providing Rathi with the names and contact numbers of the businessmen who could be used for extortion.
Some of the realtors under the police scanner are being questioned now.
During the interrogation, police have found that Rathi has invested his money in many properties in the district. After being questioned for several hours, Tully was sent to jail.
Many more arrests are on the cards, says the SSP Krishna Kumar V K. “During interrogation of Ashish Sharma, many names have surfaced. We are sure they are acting as aides of the gangster. We are now probing the matter.
The new thing that has come out in course of the investigation is that Rathi has invested his ill-gotten money in the property business in Haridwar. We are now gathering evidences. Once the process is over we would arrest more realtors,” he said, adding that some media persons are also under their scanner.